Motivational Quotes

Life

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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I think we're here for each other.